Words similar to sucking

Example sentences for: sucking

How can you use “sucking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Can you imagine the arts editor of the Los Angeles Times dressing down his lead critic for sucking up to the studios too much?
What did you think of the Dementors, those elegantly symbolic, bone-chilling villains in the latest, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ? They guard Azkaban, the wizard prison, by sucking hope from the prisoners, leaving them in a state of icy despair, as good a description of depression as I've ever read.
The salesgirl directed me (still sucking gratefully on her micro-gift) onward to the Macy's at the other end of the mall.
Some people rage against government taxes, others resent the old people who are sucking dry our Social Security safety net even as they crankily vote down local school budgets.
This was Johnson at his most evocative, trying to ease Kennedy out of his way while sucking up to him.